BLACK-BANDED CENTRARCHUS. 



Centrarchus ? vittatus. 



PLATE XIV. 



NEITHER of this fish have we any Notes; the 

 drawing alone, finished with considerable detail, 13 

 before us ; the general form is that of the two pre- 

 ceding species, but the scaling is proportionally 

 larger, and the caudal fin, very slightly forked, has 

 the lower lobe shorter than the upper. The jaws 

 are equal, and appear furnished with minute teeth 

 on their edges; the outline of the opercula is 

 rounded, and the anal fin seems to possess only throe 

 spiny rays, which, in the system of Valenciennes, 

 would bring it near to or in the genus Pomotis. 

 The general colours are represented to be bluish 

 green on the fins and upper parts, shading into sil- 

 very on the belly, and the whole is marked with 

 darker bands of the common tint. The opercula 

 and upper lobe of the tail are spotted with pale blue ; 

 and below, rather in front of the eye, and between 

 it and the maxillary bone, there are three oblong 

 streaks of bluish green, the last reaching to the 

 angle of the mouth ; but the most conspicuous mark- 

 ing in the fish is a line of about a quarter of aa 



